Mandalorianknight

Probably, but we don't know for sure. Paramount completely stopped making transformers movies after TFONE (the best transformers movie on a more critical level, even if the energy of the 1986 movie is something I wish I could inject directly into my veins at all times) underperformed at the box office. Then Hasbro said the future of the franchise was games in an investment call... then cancelled the only AAA game in development. Suddenly, from the top ropes, we get the news that Michael Bay apparently decided he was coming back, and if I remember right through some lego loophole they have to let him or they lose the rights? I'm not a Bay fan, but his movies generally made money and had cool explosions, and if it's all we can get on the movie front, I'm glad he's back. (Though I'm personally much more excited for the leaked Skybound comic adaptation tv show) I would love a G1 Prowl in any form, he's pretty underrated and gets the short end of the stick most of the time, and that Crown Vic is such an awesome car. Agh, I was about convinced to skip this one, but those images look so good, and the sound brick helps justify the price. Ravage and Laserbeak look much better than I expected, I really hope a GWP gives us Rumble and Frenzy. Also, this may just be me, I haven't measured it, but he doesn't look as small as bumblebee in this image.

The best Grievous has ever looked. This is a wave where, shockingly, some blame actually CAN be placed on the designers. The price is mostly out of their control. The content is probably out of their control to an extent. But the turbo tank of cards is a pretty major misstep. There's two things here- 1: What I am saying, and have been saying, is that the turbo tank would sell BETTER, which I feel is pretty clear. If we'd just gotten one it would be more in doubt, but it's been a decade. And again given that it's been a decade, I don't think the remake thing is as big of an issue. 2: Every other set you bring up, save the AT-OT which we got once as part of a multipack in a pseudo-UCS set 15 years ago, is a third of the price. That's a lot easier to pull off, and there are a lot more slots (Or at least, used to be) for small-mid range sets than the flagship system set of the year.

Yup. This was a vehicle Lucasfilm wanted to push. Good to know Even at the time there was more of a focus on the CTT, between the movie and associated merchandise (again, notice that this isn't unique to lego) but the bigger point is that it was the wave the movie came out in. There's always a lot more leeway for that type of thing. Please reread the comment you replied to. I make very clear that that is not what I am saying.

What's worse is to my knowledge, while an extremely odd choice, the justifier was a fairly large ship and I never heard any complaints about the structural integrity. It may have been a strange set to make, but the turbo tank was a LOGICAL set to make that they somehow decimated not only by absurd pricing but a critical design flaw. No problem- I'm just glad the forum IS in english, otherwise I'd be having a lot more difficult time than just missing a word now and then. Based on the fact that if you take a random selection of star wars fans, parents of kids aged 6-12, and kids aged 6-12, I guarantee you you will get many, MANY more people who recognize the turbo tank than a UT-AT. The U-wing is pretty obscure, even by star wars hardware standards. Aside from two seconds in revenge of the sith, the UT-AT has, in over twenty years, the canonical appearances of... it's wreckage being mentioned in the book Tarkin and a panel or two in a flashback in the tie-in series to the disney galaxy's edge theme part. (And it's not better in legends- it was in a BF2005 cutscene and there was some more wreckage in TFU. That's it.) This isn't "oh it's not as well known as a star destroyer", this is like demanding a $160 Dornean Gunship. (I was going to say the GR-75, but no, that's actually been in a fair bit of ancillary stuff). The Turbo Tank has been in clone wars, there's a good deal more focus on it in the battlefront series- being the focal point of a map for one thing- and it's had three lego sets, which also adds to it- as far as I can tell, no company has taken the risk on a UT-AT toy, not just lego. Now I'm not someone who thinks a ship or vehicle being obscure means it shouldn't be in a set, but I'm not going to pretend the more well known vehicle- that we haven't seen a set of for a decade - wouldn't sell better.

I agree with most of this- it's a bad idea for lego to target such a minority of the market, the UT-AT just doesn't work in the current environment at the price point it would command, and looking for perfect clone accuracy isn't what lego is for. (Along with a sort of wider point that I think there are a great many very, very big issues with this wave, and stuff like the visor print being misrepresented as from the cartoon rather than live action interpretation of the helmet or the flagship set not being obscure enough are kind of moot points compared to "half these sets are LITERALLY 50% or more overpriced" or "the flagship set has structural stability comparable to that of oragami") That said, while they're in their right to charge whatever price they want, I do think it's fair to say that the flagship set in the theme being so outlandishly overpriced is a big deal and a pretty understandable thing to take issue with. Glad I won't be Sword'ied on everything, but as for the firespeeder- Yeah, I agree. Like I said, the stage is set- but this specific model would not make a great snowspeeder. And not just because it's got a speeder bike sticking out of it's rear. My assumption was snow = water.

What I always say is Andor's a better tv show, but Ahsoka's a better Star Wars. I also hesitate to call Baylan an outright villain, at least if his motivation for going to peridea is what I think it is based on his earlier conversation with Shin- he's letting a warlord return to the galaxy, sure, but it's a necessary evil in his mind to let him essentially kill the devil, or at the least, do something that he believes will end the cycle of galactic war. I always assume the clone wars has some artistic license anyway- like I'd hope dooku wasn't waxing his beard to a sharp point during those three years. It's such a big oversight I have to assume someone, somewhere figured it out during testing and they decided it wasn't worth it to try and fix it. I think they know a lot of the sales are going to come from people who just want the marines and will just have the tank sitting untouched at the base of the grey baseplate. You could use dimple or divot as english words to refer to the small circular depression/hole in the center of those 8x16 tiles. And yeah, that's something they need to figure out.

I totally get what you mean- something about the way they've done up the.. (cockpit? this is a ground vehicle, I'm not sure what you'd call that section. The cab?) in this one gives me classic space vibes. This is a tradeoff I've talked about before and am generally in favor of, but it's just not the case for the Turbo Tank. It's undersized AND less detailed than the 2016 one, and yet paradoxically more expensive even after accounting for inflation. Add in the stability issues, and that's astoundingly bad. Yeah, exactly. Though I do wonder how frontloaded these purchases will be- I could see a lot of these selling out early on but being 30-40% off by Christmas as sales drop off after the initial rush. I'm a big fan of Ahsoka (The show, though I don't mind the character herself either) and I'm glad lego's covered it as much as they have- I'm hoping they keep it up for the second season. Season 2 especially is heading into Thrawn Trilogy territory, and those legends books might be my personal favorite star wars content (and the best depiction of Luke Skywalker). On the A-wing I'd also note that Ezra flies it in Rebels, so it would make sense that way too. (I don't remember exactly but he may have flown a Y-wing for a bit once or twice, but it was in situations where it was the only ship availible. He specifically chooses the A-wing the one time he goes Kenobi hunting, and it seems more like his style than a bomber IMO) To give lego some points and prove I'm not trying to be unnecessarily critical, I saw an MTT review today and realized the droids are, in fact, gunmetal in the final set, not dark brown. That's a huge improvement, and I'm very happy to hear it. I've been criticizing them for the droids being the wrong color, and I was wrong to do so. Well said. Stability issues of this kind are very rare with lego nowadays. People bandy about "lego is lazy", often in situations where it doesn't apply, but this is certainly one where it does. They either failed to do their standard quality checking, or knew about this issue and didn't care. (I honestly think it's the latter. I think these prices and builds imply that lego believes sales of these sets will be fully driven by the figures, and that no one actually cares about the builds, which is sad to see.)

Because whether they're right or not, lego clearly feels that they can just put a random smattering of grey parts alongside clone troopers and people will buy it. This should be the best opportunity to prove them wrong, guys, PLEASE don't spend $160 on this just to pick up a few galactic marines. It's not even just that it's downsized- it's downsized AND underdetailed! I'm fine with sets like the 2016 tank being a bit smaller than the last in exchange for excellent detailing, but this one, as @icm sort of implies, it's more in line with Classic Space's aesthetic than star wars. It looks like the Battlefront 2005 juggernaut model. It's a weird sort of condensing of sizes. Slave One should not be the same size as a 1-person starfighter.

They did it because they could re-use the print however many times in a single set so technically X characters would have leg printing, but I agree, it could easily have been used to give some more variety in the torsos. IIRC lego says a leg print is something like three times more "zones" than a torso one, so we could honestly have gotten at least one or two characters broken out of their jumpsuits instead of leg printing. Though I'm sure had they done this half the forum would be complaining about the fact that they couldn't even give the suit they re-use 6 times in the set leg printing.

If they want to capitalize on the bayverse fans (which I'm not really one of, but there are a lot of 'em, and seeing as Bay returning is the only reason we're getting another transformers film at all...), Speed Champions would be a great way to do it since you can't really translate those designs into transforming lego sets. I do think most of the G1 designs really could be made as transforming system sets at this point, too. This is a good point, she was objectively better suited to be the main character of that movie than Sam.

Oh, that makes sense. I guess he did fly one in Rebels on solo missions. At this point I'm actually cheering for these to shelfwarm miserably. I think it does more damage in the long term if a wave with these prices and other issues is successful. They can't course correct most of the issues in time for the 2026 waves but they can at least start charging semi reasonable prices again. There's no universe where a parent sees the two clones vs droids battle packs on shelves together and gets the 327th one.

This is a good point- I don't think I've ever seen him smile in any comic runs or animated movies I've seen with him. I know this isn't what you meant but I like to think of this as asserting that Jeff Goldblum just naturally looks like a batman villain.

One of my fake set names referenced China's treatment of their Uyghur population (The joke being that disney won't let Slave One be called by it's name, but has famously been concerningly close to the latter issue.), but I don't know if that was it. I've made that joke on this site for years, I believe others have referenced it in the past as well, I can't figure out where race would factor in, and it was relating only to China, where I know Max_Lego generally takes issue with references to Russia. I had thought it was something the western world generally agreed about, but a quick google that the issue appears to have just flared up in eastern european media for some reason- I wasn't aware of it when I posted but apparently the joke was poorly timed. I can go back and change it to something else if neccesary. I can see both sides. At the end of the day I don't think it matters all that much, nor is it the biggest issue with the set, but it certainly would have been nice to get both crewers. It would also be nice to get them in the system version, I'd add. I was playing it up a bit for the fake set name, but I agree it's not too bad if you look at it from the "ewoks eat humans" perspective. The only thing is I can't imagine lego was going for that. I wonder who does buy these- the droids I can at least see, but the organic ones, baby yoda exempted, always look really rough. Chewbacca was always on HEAVY sales, and clearly even lego's TV group recognizes how cursed that set is. I didn't realize the issue was contested in the east, nor that it was cropping up in eastern european news cycles today (though I still haven't been able to find out WHY)- to be fair to max it was a bad time for the joke, even if I didn't know it when I posted. It's a good reminder that even if everyone in the west seems to be on the same page, the forum isn't region-locked. I can't figure this one out- I get Ezra, is he flying an A-wing in concept art? It's a nice mix of "lego was so close to actually putting terrain in a battle pack and took it out at the last second" and "lego is charging $45 for this battle pack and yet STILL felt the need to remove a side build". I'm scrambling to finish my May 4 contest entries right now (plus it's a bit of a major holiday in the states at the moment) but I'll probably switch out my PFP to have my sigfig standing on the terrain build.

Announcement of standard retail $30-140 sets. PLEASE. At this point I'll take a nontransforming Speed Champions 07 camero with Shia Lebeouf.

As we saw with the fantastic four set, lego apparently can't be bothered to give a torso print different hand colors now, so I'd assume that's it. I think you're really optimistic about it including spare torsos and legs (the most expensive parts of a figure to make- at that point I feel like why not just throw in a few re-used heads for generic inmates or villains like two-face), but it would be nice if it did. It looks too much like a wholesome laugh rather than a deranged one. Yeah, robin's fine. I don't much care for that suit but at least our first robin in 5 years is here and it's not Chris O'donnell. I think we could get one with green skin if it lets them "get away" with a more traditional outfit for her rather than the green shirt and pants she had in 2019. Edit: Wait, nevermind, it'd require a leg print and a new head print. We're totally getting the jyn erso head with a green shirt and pants.

Jaxxon in a lego set would either be an immediate insta-buy at 200% of it's MSRP, or cause me to quit buying legos and become violently ill whenever I see it, I'm not sure which. This is a good list and I agree with most of your comments, I'm gonna steal your formatting for mine: 1. Space Jesus's T-wing Starfighter (V-19 torrent)- 8.5/10 A little overpriced, but best in the wave. Solid build. Excellent Obi-Wan and clone pilot, great to finally get an accurate helmet. 2. Fire Nation Snowspeeder (Force Burner Snowspeeder) - 8/10 In any other wave I'd be conflicted, but this is some nice, fun variety The build itself sets the stage for some great advancements to the T-47 Orange blades return and the duros looks awesome. I'll need an air nation one to conclude the quadrilogy in 2032. 3. Man who went to Julliard (K-2SO) -8/10 I have my issues with how many of these we get, but it's at it's best when it's a droid The majority of the build is very well done Unfortunately, it's important to get the face right on these, and this set fails to do so Here's where it gets tricky. Every other set in the wave I have serious issues with: 4. Disney-approved Jango Fett's Uyghur One ("Jango Fett's Starship") - 7/10 I disagree with the set in concept- Jango's starfighter should be at a higher price point. Even at this price point, it's a good $15 too expensive for what's included. That said, for a starfighter, it's a solid build, and it's nice for Jango to be widely availible. 5. Bly and Aayla rudely interrupt a droid picnic (MTT) - 7/10 It's nice to finally get some separatist representation, but this is poorly done (Also, should have been brown) $150 is a solid price point for an MTT in concept, but the value isn't there- this is a $120 set in 2024. Bly and Aayla are nice, but it fits too few droids and the commandos are somehow still the wrong color and totally inaccurate- why aren't more people talking about this? Where are the clone bros on this? 6. "CHICKEN WALKER!!" (AT-ST) - 7/10 Awfully overpriced- in terms of total $$$ and not percentage, this is probably the most overpriced in the wave Doesn't feel like a big enough improvement for what it is- I'm not a studless guy, but the "face" needed to be smoother Overall feels like it's not a big enough upgrade from the 2006 version, but to be fair it isn't too bad. 7. They fly now (Battle Droid W/STAP) - 6.5/10 Another one with a disgusting price. The B1 is too thick, and has a weird head That said, the STAP itself looks fairly solid. 8. Actual Cannibal Wicket Lebeouf (Buildable Wicket) - 6.5/10 I will give it some credit for the price being fairly reasonable When will lego learn that the vast majority of their organic buildable DO NOT WORK. The face is just awful 9. PS1 rendition of a Clone Turbo Tank - 6/10 Another seriously terrible price. We've passed "set containing grievous" tier and hit the X-jet tier. Even if this was a reasonable price, it's just a bad set. I could take the size, but it's so weirdly underdetailed and low-polygonal. Shoutout to the one galactic marine on the box art who found a jump boost potion somewhere. 10. The Scourge of @Mandalorianknight (327th BP) - 4/10 Quite possibly the most overpriced by percent set in recent LSW history, deserving a tier of it's own. The final form of clone fever and lego's response to it. They couldn't have made this a worse set for me personally if they'd done it intentionally- The march to kill cloth continues with plastic pauldrons, a concept with potential but poorly executed. Oversized AT-RT returns, along with a new Funko Pop DSD taking over from the old one I liked. The one part of the set I thought was a good sign- the terrain build that I've long advocated for putting in battle packs- WAS REMOVED FOR THE FINAL SET Objectively less value than ANOTHER CLONE BATTLE PACK that it's 50% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN and will be on shelves at the same time. Somehow, some way, the clone brotubers and the kids that watch them will buy enough to encourage lego to keep doing these at these prices.

By god, the aslume jokes are making it into the sets. The theme is collapsing in on itself. Aren't we getting two of Officer Bolls?

So, 1. Yes, it is smaller. 2. I don't know in what world $70/54% after accounting for inflation is "not big at all". Again, that's AFTER inflation. The 2006 AT-ST, accounting for inflation, is $130 2025 dollars. I totally agree. I think an additional bit that makes this even more absurd, is in between the leaked images and the final images, they removed a side build. You know, because that bit of terrain would totally have made them lose so much money. I won't be buying any of these either. I might get the firespeeder at discount because it's fun, but most of these I wouldn't get for anything less than 50% off. As Cloneopatra says, the entire wave is "Set containing General Grievous" priced. Hopefully it turns around- I feel like they have to be overplaying their hand here, right? Sets like the Hoopty or X-jet hit deep sales pretty quickly, and even in the case of things like the X-jet, it was our first time getting any X-men besides wolverine in a decade, so there were plenty of people who were chomping at the bit for x-men no matter the cost. There can't possibly be enough clone bros both rich enough and fanatical enough to pay these prices, especially with how prominent clones have been the past few years.

But surely getting an additional build is better than not getting that build, right? Like even if you think the terrain is "pointless" (I don't. Why would it be pointless? It's nice to have some terrain for figures to hide behind or pose on), it's more stuff versus less stuff for the same price. The spider-droid doesn't look any different to me, and while the AT-RT has a few color swaps the build itself looks almost identical as well. And the idea that "Well, maybe it was secretly going to cost MORE than the leaked price, and they had to remove the side build to bring it back down!"... I'm sorry, but that feels like a real stretch and cope. I like this metric and will be using it an incessant amount. I'm not sure what I'm missing here. What am I saying that is not correct? Is my math wrong on the price? Is it not, in fact, smaller than the previous version?

This is understandable as you say you aren't interested whatsoever in it, but a pretty solid chunk of the Joe's stuff and pretty much ALL the Cobra stuff is impossible to mistake for real world military equipment. Nobody's rocking up to the middle east in the Triple T, a HISS Tank, etc. To say nothing of the Cobra mechs and robots. The most they'd have to do- especially if the sets were based on the leaked Energon Universe show- would be their fortnite strategy of the figs just conveniently not having guns.

Yes. Accounting for inflation, that's about $130. They're charging 54% more for one that, if the leaks were correct, is SMALLER than the previous one. I'd assume March, usually they like to get them out a couple months early, right? KALKITE. I love that lego's answer to this problem was "let's remove value from the set" I certainly won't. If a set is too overpriced, I don't buy it, even if it's something like the X-jet that I would really have wanted at a lower price. I hope most of the people here won't buy these either. I'm not being snarky, I genuinely do not understand how one would view them removing a side build as anything other than objectively bad unless it corresponds to a price decrease. It's not like those pieces went somewhere else- they've just removed value from the set. Welcome to eurobricks, excellent second post.

Very nice! I wouldn't envy swooshing it IRL, but that's the price to pay for that level of greebling details and that great heli blade part usage for the turret. The design language immediately tells you "big experimental TIE", and being quickly visually identifiable is one of the more important things for a star wars ship IMO.

I just wish they'd make the polybags availible in the US. Magazines aren't as big here, but just put the polybags in checkout aisles like they used to. Kids would love it and I personally would probably end up impulse buying one every other time I get groceries. I'm sure it's something relating to lego's standards for minifigures vs droids as you say, but I think it's a lot funnier to imagine that either these two designers literally just don't interact with each other, or they're rivals and the snowspeeder guy personally added the STAP just to mess with the MTT guy. To be fair I believe the firespeeder is supposed to accommodate the speeder bike in some capacity, I imagine that's why it's so deep. Doesn't change the wings, but I doubt the next ESB speeder will be 1:1 anyway. Everything else aside, the box art guys were having fun between the droid picnic and the one marine double jumping. It's mind boggling to me how little they updated this from one almost two decades ago and yet, after inflation, they're charging 54% more. Definitely a good year for my wallet as far as legos go.

This is the step in the right direction I'm looking for. C'mon, lego, make this the accurately sized AT-RT with Mando and Grogu, you know how well that would sell. I'm glad someone else pointed this out, I remember saying back when the images leaked that one marine had some immaculate hops on him. No, it does not. Yup. Lego's starfighters were getting too big. The proportionate response was not to make the Slave One a starfighter. Because lego, overinfluenced by the influencers, views the prequels as a six-hour showcase of clone legions and vehicles. It's somewhere in the range of $50, I don't know what the price is in euros. All the official images do is make me think the Turbo Tank and MTT look even worse than the leaked images, and cement my belief that the new slave one is the 2021 one colorswapped and with a $15 Lama Su Tax. The turbo tank boggles my mind, it honestly just looks bad and simplified. Lego's been getting more and more detailed and this just looks so plain and underdetailed. Snowspeeder continues to be the clear standout, somehow. Solitus looks awesome

I wouldn't. I can't think of a single time they've included multiple sets of torsos and legs for the same minifigure in a set.